A global layer is a single layer — with all of its choices — that can be reused across many products.
The classic case is a set of options that repeats throughout your catalogue: a fabric range, a list of finishes, a palette of thread colours. Instead of rebuilding that layer on every product, or copying it and then having to maintain each copy, you build it once as a global layer and import it wherever it is needed.
When you add a colour to the global layer, every product using it gets the new colour. When a fabric is discontinued, you remove it in one place.
Global layers or global configurators?
The two features solve related problems at different scales:
- Global layer — share one layer between products that are otherwise different. A bag and a chair might share the same fabric layer while having nothing else in common.
- Global configurator — share an entire configurator between products that are configured identically.
They can be used together: a product with its own local configurator can import several global layers alongside its own product-specific ones.
In this section
- Creating a global layer — building one, or promoting a layer you already have.
- Importing a global layer into a product — reusing it, and what stays linked.